re: #366 McSpiff

I dont need to call you stupid. You said that every unemployed person in America could take the job of illegal. This, I agree is true. You suggested this is a solution to unemployment. I agree in the dictionary definition sense of the word, this is true. However, an economy replacing $70,000/year jobs with $20,000/year jobs is not healthy. You lose secondary industry, you lose tax base. This economy would be contracting and very much dying. So we could have 0% unemployment, a crashing GDP, and in general standard of living equivalent to the best parts of Mexico.

I’m not suggesting a government fix all. But I’m also not going to say that increasing the % of population doing yard work is going to magically fix everything either. The entire system is built upon the idea that the majority of the populations will have increasing purchasing power. Take that away, and you’ll see major changes for even those still employed.

The piss poor standard of living is coming soon, once cap and trade goes through.